historian at the National Archives. Newly released MI5 documents have revealed that Queen Elizabeth II was not formally briefed about the full extent of royal art surveyor Anthony Blunt's Soviet ...

The exhibition "MI5: Official Secrets" marks an unprecedented collaboration between the intelligence agency and The National Archives, offering the public a first-ever glimpse into MI5's classified ...

A briefcase left behind by infamous Cambridge spy Guy Burgess as he fled to Moscow in 1951 is among never-before-seen MI5 artefacts going on display at The National Archives ... had spoken to the ...

The members of the ring were Donald Maclean (1913 - 1983), Guy Burgess (1911 - 1963), Harold 'Kim' Philby (1912 - 1988) and Anthony Blunt (1907 - 1983). Several other people have been suggested as ...

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